In 1976, Phil moved his family to Edmonton and settled in as curator of palaeontology at what has since been renamed the Royal Alberta Museum. He held down the position while completing a PhD in absentia from McGill and also welcomed third son, Brett, to the family. His summers were spent combing the Alberta badlands for fossils. Within five years, Phil and his staff had retrieved so many specimens from Dinosaur Provincial Park that the collection threatened to overwhelm the museum. It was becoming increasingly clear that Alberta’s rising prominence as a paleontological centre warranted a new provincial institution dedicated to the field.

Currie, Philip J.; Wilson, Jeffrey A.; Fanti, Federico; Mainbayar, Buuvei; Tsogtbaatar, Khishigjav (2018). "Rediscovery of the type localities of the Late Cretaceous Mongolian sauropods Nemegtosaurus mongoliensis and Opisthocoelicaudia skarzynskii: Stratigraphic and taxonomic implications". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 494: 5–13. Bibcode: 2018PPP...494....5C. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.10.035. hdl: 11585/622592. with Sovak J); The flying dinosaurs: the illustrated guide to the evolution of flight (Red Deer College Press, 1991). Philip John Currie AOE FRSC (born March 13, 1949) is a Canadian palaeontologist and museum curator who helped found the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta and is now a professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. In the 1980s, he became the director of the Canada-China Dinosaur Project, the first cooperative palaeontological partnering between China and the West since the Central Asiatic Expeditions in the 1920s, and helped describe some of the first feathered dinosaurs. [1] [2] He is one of the primary editors of the influential Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, [3] and his areas of expertise include theropods (especially Tyrannosauridae), the origin of birds, and dinosaurian migration patterns and herding behavior. [4] He was one of the models for palaeontologist Alan Grant in the film Jurassic Park. [5] Biography [ edit ]

So I get a scoop of chips, put them on his plate, getting ready for the next one and he’s still stood there looking at me. Evans, David Christopher; Larson, Derek W.; Currie, Philip J. (2013). "A new dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) with Asian affinities from the latest Cretaceous of North America". Naturwissenschaften. 100 (11): 1041–1049. Bibcode: 2013NW....100.1041E. doi: 10.1007/s00114-013-1107-5. PMID 24248432. S2CID 14978813.

Myhrvold, Nathan P.; Currie, Philip J. (1997). "Supersonic sauropods? Tail dynamics in the diplodocids" (PDF). Paleobiology. 23 (4): 393–409. doi: 10.1017/S0094837300019801. S2CID 83696153. with Koppelhus E, Orsen M.J., Norell M, Hopp T.P., Bakker R et.al); Feathered Dragons: Studies on the Transition from Dinosaurs to Birds ( Indiana University Press, 2004) ISBN 0-253-34373-9.All ended well though, as Phil recalled that he and Rodger laughed about the near-miss year’s later, with the lag letting him know that his remark did “p*** him off”, he knew there was “no malice” in it. Currie, Philip J.; Sarjeant, William A. S. (1979). "Lower cretaceous dinosaur footprints from the peace River Canyon, British Columbia, Canada" (PDF). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 28: 103–115. Bibcode: 1979PPP....28..103C. doi: 10.1016/0031-0182(79)90114-7.